When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband is missing, and Rebus knows that his daughter will be the prime suspect.
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Rankin, IanSummary: - Author:Whishaw, IonaSummary:
In the fifth book of the series that the Globe and Mail calls "terrific," Lane Winslow investigates the murder of an unidentified man she found adrift in a boat near King's Cove. Lane Winslow is enjoying a perfect, sunny...
- Author:Ashley, JenniferSummary:
London, 1880. Kat Holloway, highly sought-after young cook to the wealthy of London, finds herself embroiled in murder when she's accused of poisoning her employer, the loathsome Sir Lionel Leigh-Bradbury. Her only help as she works to...
- Author:Pajer, BernadetteSummary:
Can death bring a man back to life? When UW Professor Benjamin Bradshaw discovers a despised colleague dead inside the Faraday Cage of the Electric Machine, his carefully controlled world shatters. The facts don't add up, the police...
- Author:Clark, Mary HigginsSummary:
Journalist Sharon Martin and her fiance, attorney Steve Peterson, stand on opposite sides of the capital punishmen debate. Sharon opposes the death sense, while Steve believes that murderers should be executed. But one night, when Steve...
- Author:Herren, T.G.Summary:
When the mysterious letter arrives by courier, Valerie Cooper doesn't know what to make of it. She's become the beneficiary of her late husband's estranged uncle's will--a man she never knew--and inherited a majority partnership in the...
- Author:Struthers, BetsySummary:
No wonder the university administration is worried: a fatal hit and run in the parking lot; a woman jogger drowned in the river. Accidents? Perhaps. But the latest campus death is no accident – and suicides don’t stab themselves several...
- Author:Denning, G. S.Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot. A good man, perhaps; a font of arcane power, certainly. But he's brilliantly...
- Author:Doyle, Arthur ConanSummary:
A single word was scrawled across the wall in blood red letters. Holmes and Watson are deducing again.
- Author:Thomas, SherrySummary:
With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper-class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
In a London hospital, a talented nurse is found strangled to death. As Inspector Monk searches for the killer, he uncovers a tragic evil that darkens every level of the city's society.
- Author:Barr, NevadaSummary:
Anna Pigeon's job as U.S. National Park Service Ranger has lead her to Lake Superior--where an unaccounted-for corpse has turned up among the victims of a 70-year-old shipwreck.
- Author:Chisholm, P. F.Summary:
Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. However the dashing Carey, possibly a cousin of the Queen, merely trades one set of troubles for...
- Author:Kelly, SofieSummary:
In this charming mystery from the bestselling author of Paws and Effect, two magical cats have powers of detection that prove indispensable to librarian Kathleen Paulson.
- Author:Wick, LoriSummary:
With over two million copies of her books in print, Lori Wick consistently tops the Christian best-selling fiction lists. Delighting fans with her versatility, she transports readers sometimes to Victorian England, sometimes to the...
- Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:
It has been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present that he has avoided examining his past. But when an intruder dies in the museum-like family home, the man's...
- Author:Burrows, SteveSummary:
It is in the silent spaces between the facts that the truth often lies. When his most celebrated case is suddenly reopened, Detective Chief Inspector Jejeune‘s long-buried secrets threaten to come to light. Meanwhile, his girlfriend,...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the...
- Author:Wright, L.R.Summary:
Murder casts a dark shadow over Canada's Sunshine Coast in this Edgar Award-winning crime series-the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Gordon Murphy has a Midas touch for business, but he's all...
- Author:Starr, MelSummary:
When some valuable books are stolen from Master John Wyclif, the well-known scholar and Bible translator, he calls upon his friend and former pupil, Hugh de Singleton, to investigate.
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